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IndyCar: O’Ward tops opening practice at Mid-Ohio

Posted by AR1 staff

–by Mark Cipolloni–

Arrow McLaren Chevy driver Pato O’Ward turned a lap of 1m06.4935s to lead opening practice for the Honda Indy 200 IndyCar race at Mid-Ohio.

“A good start here at Mid-Ohio,” O’Ward said after the session. “We made some good changes to the car and ended up the practice in a really nice spot. Looking forward to tomorrow.”

“It will be interesting to see if the rain decides to make an appearance or not,” said O’Ward, referencing local forecasts. “But yeah, so far so good (for us).”

The hottest man on the circuit right now, Alex Palou, was 2nd quick in the #10 Chip Ganassi Honda, 0.36s back.

Palou’s Ganassi teammate Marcus Ericsson was 3rd quick, 0.48s back.

RLL’s Christian Lundgaard, who led most of the session in his #45 Honda, had to settle for 4th while Kyle Kirkwood rounded out the top-5 for Andretti Autosport.

Practice 1 Results

Pos No Name Time Behind Gap FL Laps Speed Engine Team
1 5 Pato O’Ward 1:06.4935 0.000s 0.000s 19 25 122.250 Chevy Arrow McLaren
2 10 Alex Palou 1:06.8558 0.3623 0.3623 20 23 121.587 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
3 8 Marcus Ericsson 1:06.9779 0.4844 0.1221 20 24 121.365 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
4 45 Christian Lundgaard 1:07.0262 0.5327 0.0483 25 27 121.278 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
5 27 Kyle Kirkwood 1:07.0269 0.5334 0.0007 17 21 121.277 Honda Andretti Autosport
6 28 Romain Grosjean 1:07.1175 0.6240 0.0906 20 22 121.113 Honda Andretti Autosport
7 2 Josef Newgarden 1:07.1401 0.6466 0.0226 25 30 121.072 Chevy Team Penske
8 3 Scott McLaughlin 1:07.1531 0.6596 0.0130 22 24 121.049 Chevy Team Penske
9 7 Alexander Rossi 1:07.1953 0.7018 0.0422 22 25 120.973 Chevy Arrow McLaren
10 26 Colton Herta 1:07.2166 0.7231 0.0213 18 20 120.934 Honda Andretti Autosport w/Curb Agajanian
11 30 Jack Harvey 1:07.2674 0.7739 0.0508 22 24 120.843 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
12 29 Devlin DeFrancesco 1:07.3206 0.8271 0.0532 16 21 120.748 Honda Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
13 6 Felix Rosenqvist 1:07.3249 0.8314 0.0043 6 23 120.740 Chevy Arrow McLaren
14 12 Will Power 1:07.3407 0.8472 0.0158 5 28 120.712 Chevy Team Penske
15 9 Scott Dixon 1:07.4275 0.9340 0.0868 22 25 120.556 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
16 06 Helio Castroneves 1:07.4346 0.9411 0.0071 19 23 120.543 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
17 21 Rinus VeeKay 1:07.4613 0.9678 0.0267 23 26 120.496 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
18 11 Marcus Armstrong 1:07.5083 1.0148 0.0470 26 29 120.412 Honda Chip Ganassi Racing
19 15 Graham Rahal 1:07.6082 1.1147 0.0999 22 22 120.234 Honda Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
20 60 Simon Pagenaud 1:07.6215 1.1280 0.0133 18 23 120.210 Honda Meyer Shank Racing
21 20 Ryan Hunter Reay 1:07.7272 1.2337 0.1057 22 25 120.023 Chevy Ed Carpenter Racing
22 77 Callum Ilott 1:07.7347 1.2412 0.0075 22 23 120.009 Chevy Juncos Hollinger Racing
23 78 Agustin Canapino 1:07.8378 1.3443 0.1031 29 32 119.827 Chevy Juncos Holling Racing
24 18 David Malukas 1:07.8785 1.3850 0.0407 7 10 119.755 Honda Dale Coyne Racing with HMD
25 14 Santino Ferrucci 1:08.0703 1.5768 0.1918 23 23 119.418 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises
26 51 Sting Ray Robb 1:08.3577 1.8642 0.2874 7 26 118.916 Honda Dale Coyne Racing w/RWR
27 55 Benjamin Pedersen 1:08.9832 2.4897 0.6255 18 32 117.837 Chevy AJ Foyt Enterprises